New York State Senator

Nathalia Fernandez Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03956

Introduced
1/31/25  
Prohibits employers from using the federal electronic employment verification system to check the employment authorization status of an existing employee or an applicant who has not been offered employment and prohibits municipalities from requiring employers to use the federal electronic employment verification system.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03967

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Provides immunity from prosecution for certain individuals engaged in prostitution who are victims of or witnesses to a crime and who report such crime or assist in the investigation or prosecution.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04048

Introduced
1/31/25  
Increases the minimum wage annually; provides for the enforcement of the minimum wage; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04049

Introduced
1/31/25  
Relates to requiring coverage for volunteer firefighters for full cancer screenings upon entry of service to a fire department or fire company and annually thereafter; provides that the costs of such screenings shall be covered by the state.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04067

Introduced
1/31/25  
Codifies the disparate impact standard in the human rights law; provides that in cases of alleged housing discrimination, an unlawful discriminatory practice may be established by a practice's discriminatory effect.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04071

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Engrossed
4/3/25  
Includes stormwater in the definition of sewage for purposes of certain water, sewer, and water and sewer authorities; defines stormwater.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04077

Introduced
1/31/25  
Relates to establishing an abatement and exemption from real property taxes for capital improvements to reduce carbon emissions; establishes an energy efficiency improvement board to approve the abatements and exemptions.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04079

Introduced
1/31/25  
Relates to establishing the crime of coercive control; provides that a person is guilty of coercive control when such person engages in a course of conduct against a member of such person's same family or household, without the victim's consent, which results in limiting or restricting, in full or in part, the victim's behavior, movement, associations or access to or use of such victim's own finances or financial information; provides that coercive control is a class E felony.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03963

Introduced
1/31/25  
Provides for voluntary certification of certified recovery community centers.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04030

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Engrossed
4/22/25  
Directs the department of environmental conservation to promulgate air quality standards for emissions of certain toxic air contaminants.